The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-06-12
NEW JERSEY 1SDUs1R11s.
some Figures From she Annual Report
OF the State Labor Bnrtau.

of the State Labor Bnrta an.
Here are some figures cleaned from the
ninth annual report of the State Labor
Bureau: The averogs cost of food for
adults in the families of africans is placed
at 25 cents per day; With glassblowers,
who earn the highest wages, the cost of
food is greater, being 262 cents per day to
each adult shoe operatives get along on
% cents, and laborers on Il is cents.
In the cotton and wooden mills the wool
sorters made STAT, and the next highest in
wage earning were the calender men, get
ting 1882. Silk operatives earn about as
much as those engaged IN the calling just
mentioned. the twisters being the highest,
at SITS, and dyers getting $500. Passing
to other trades we find that blacksmiths
get STA, printers $724, house carpenters
1858, machinists 1920, shoemakers $59S,
and laborers $340
The five manufacturing centres of the
State. Newark, Jersey City, Paterson,
Trenton and Camden, have 8, 1886 industrial
establishments, employing 91,803 wage
earners of all ages, in wnichl $40, 070, 573
capital is invested To Newark are cred
tied / ,531 manufactures, SO, 401 employees
and 500, 300,580 capital. This proportion
of producers to population is something
less than one in five of the total population,
while in Jersey CITY, with over 10000 in
habitants, only 1901 of all ages are
employed in local industries. Paterson has
403 establishments, "a, 1873 employed and
SIS, 707, $50 capital. Trenton has 492 sep
arate industrial places, but only So 500, 100
capital and 10,439 operatives. Camden
boasts of TIC industries, s, TAG employees,
and I, 1917, 664 capital. Durin the year 1886
the wages paid to employees
in Newark footed up SIS, 40, $50; ma terial
used, $50, COG, 220; value of products, $780,
454, 954. Jersey City only paid Sc, 1858
in wages to her workmen to use material of
the value of $55 1913, 673, and turned out
goods worth $6S, $50, 1853. Paterson expend-
cd So, 400, 29S in wages and converted ma
terial worth SIS, 322, 629 into merchandise
worth $50, sol, 1929. The excess in value of
goods produced, over wages and material,
in Newark, was $14 676,0S4. In Jersey
City and Paterson ombined the excess is
slightly less, being total of $14, AIS, 329.
The industries of Newark which present
the most imposing figures in the report
are: Malt liquors, 20 establishm ents, 49,
$50, AL worth of drinkables produced;
jewelry, IA establishments. So ,760, 668
capital, 1895 employees and 81, 402, 944
worth of ornaments turned out; leather SO
establishments. capital s3,515,533, era
ployees 1850, producing $16,111,3 1856
worth of goods; foundries and machine
shops IS, capital 81, AGO, $50, employees
1895, products s2,l52, 1894; drugs and
chemicals. IS Establishments, 81 ,598, o05
capita. 43e employees and 81, 344, 345 pro-
ducts; celluloid, 8 establishments, 1885,
800 capital, 632 employees and LISA, 17S
products.
In the celluloid goods line last year the
wages paid employees footed up $685., 1884;
the materials used were valued at $685.
546, and the product exceeded wages and
cost by $685., 1888. which on an invested
capital of less than q Aillion and half
may be considered pretty fair return.
The hat industry. in Sc establishments,
with $S12, $50 capital. em pioyed 1871 peo-
pie, who received 81 .524 $40 in wages,
used 81, 1881, 343 worth of material and pro-
duced 50, 9l3, 765 worth OF goods.
One-half the silk goods manufactured in
the Uuited States are the products of New
Jersey mills.